"I know the spells," Alex muttered, rubbing tired eyes, "but I don’t understand the magic."
By the time you finish the final chapter (building a simple web server with sockets), you will no longer be a user of Unix/Linux. You will be someone who understands how to program the system from the inside out. And that understanding is the foundation of a true systems programmer.
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